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From "Cancer, Increasing your Odds for Survival" by David Bognar
If you do not have insurance, contact your local American Cancer Society, or call the Cancer Information Service at 1-800-4-CANCER, for information about community agenices that can assist in finding financial assistance for you. Your state Department of Public Health should also have information on community health clinics and public health programs.
Some hospitals and health care facilities, including nursing homes, have received federal assistance under the Hill-Burton program and are required to provide some free care. People with poverty-level income can apply for this assistance at participating hospitals. For a list of the health care facilities in your state, contact the following federal agency and leave a voice-mail message. To speak to someone about the program, call from 1:30 to 3:30p.m. EST.
Office of Health Facilities
Health resources and Services Admninistration
Department of Health and Human Services
5600 Fishers Lane, Room 11-03
Rockville, MD 20857
phone 800-638-0742
The following organisations provide assistance with the cost of drugs:
Adria Patient Assistance Plan, Adria Laboratories, P.O.Box 16529, Columbus, OH 43216-6529 (614) 764-8100. Provides chemo drugs (Adriamycin, vincristine, vinblastine) free-of-charge to patients with financial need. Request must be made by the patient's doctor to Adria Laboratories or local Adria representative
Bristol-Myers Indigent Patient Assistance Program, Bristol-Myers Onocology Division, 2404 West Pennsylvania Street, Evansville, IN47721 (812) 429-5000. Provides chemotherapy (Cytoxan) free of charge to patients with financial need. Request must be made by the patient's physician.
ICI Pharmaceutical Novaldex (tamoxifen) Patient Assistance Program, Manager Professional Services, ICI Pharmaceuticals, Division of ICI Americas, Inc., Wilmington, DE 19897 (800) 456-5678. provides tamoxifen to patients with financial need. Write for application.
American Association of Retired People (AARP) Pharmacy Service. Catalog Dept., Box 19229, Alexandria, VA 22320. members can use their nonprofit service to save on prescriptions delivered by mail. Good for tamoxifen (Novaldex). Write for free catalog.
Corporate Angel Network, Inc., (CAN), Westchester County Airport,
Building 1, White Plains, NY 10604 (914) 328-1313. A nationwide program
designed to give patients with cancer the use of available seats on corporate
aircraft to get to and from recognized treatment centers. There is no cost
or any financial need requirement.
http://www.corpangelnetwork.org/
Mission Air Transportation Network (Canada), 77, Bloor Street West, Suite 1711, Toronto, Ont. M5S 3A1 (416) 924-9333. Same as above
National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892-4200 (800) 638-6694.
Patients who are treated here as part of a clinical study receive their
treatment free and may be housed free-of-charge at the hospital
facilities of the NCI.
From "Holding Tight, Letting Go" by Musa Mayer
"The Affording Care Bulletin" free newsletter. Affording Care
(financial information for those with serious illness), 429, East Street,
Suite 4G, New York, NY 10022-6431 (212) 371-4740. Online at
http://www.the-body.com/...afford/affordix.html
Directory of Prescription Drug Assistance Programs, 1996. Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, 1100 15th Street, NW Washington, DC 20005 (800) PMA-INFA
Free & Low Cost Prescription Drugs. booklet #PD-360 from the Cost Containment Research Institute, 611 Pennsylvania Ave. SE, Suite 1010, Washington DC 20003-4303
Air Care Alliance, The National Patient Air Transport Hot line
(NPATH), (800) 296-1217, A nationwide association of humatiarian flying
organizations
http://www.angelflightfla.org/aircareall.org/acahome.html
Airlifeline (800) 446-1231 http://www.airlifeline.org/
free, nationwide service that flies qualified patients to treatment
sites within 500-700 miles
Pharmaceutical Reimbursement Assistance Programs, U.S. Senate,
Department of Aging
http://oncolink.upenn.edu/specialty/chemo/indigent_drugs.html
U.S. Social Security Administration (800) 772-1213 http://www.ssa.gov/SSA_Home.html
If you have been or will be disabled for six months or longer, you
may be entitled to disability benefits. Pamphlets are avaialble online
at
http://www.ssa.gov/pubs/englist.html
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